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Australian Weather News |
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Monday, 26 MAR 2001 |
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 Warm
temperatures for late March in SE Qld  30Mar01 Record
cold nights spread to northern and eastern WA |
| Brisbane residents sweated
through an unusually warm night for this time of year. The Airport recorded
a minimum of 24.7, only 5.2° above normal, but not far off the record of
25.4 on 10 March 1995, in over 50 years of observation. The Brisbane City
automatic weather station recorded a rounded figure of 25°. The highest
March minimum at the old BoM Regional Office site, which closed in 1986
after 100 years of observations, was 25.5 on 14 March 1973. Coastal areas
north of Brisbane also felt the heat during the day. Heron Island, 80km
NE of Gladstone, recorded its highest March maximum temperature in 20 years
with 31.8, while Double Island Point Lighthouse, 160km north of Brisbane,
recorded a top of 33.1, 1.4° above its previous March record in 37 years.
More new minimum temperature records were set in northern and eastern WA and western NT this morning, as cold, dry southern air spread northwards across the region. See special report. |
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National
weather extremes for today |
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| Quality control note: Data is complete, and has been visually checked by AWN for gross errors. Less obvious errors may remain. See Explanation of Extremes Pages for more information | |
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set this day (previous record and years of computerised record shown in
brackets):
Highest 24-hour
rainfall for March: Lowest
minimum temperature for March: Northern Territory: Highest maximum temperature
for March: |
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Todays highest rainfall totals for the 24 hours to 9am. It includes the top 5 totals received, and/or all reported falls of 50mm or more. 109.5 MACKSVILLE COUNTRY CLUB MidNorth
Coast N NSW |
High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less.
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Todays highest & lowest temperatures |
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| Maximum | Minimum |
| 35.5
CLERMONT POST OFFICE Central Highlands QLD 35.0 JABIRU AIRPORT Darwin-Daly NT 35.0 COLLINSVILLE POST OFFICE Central Coast E QLD 34.5 OENPELLI Darwin-Daly NT 34.5 MORANBAH WATER TREATMENT PLANT Central Coast W QLD |
28.0
COCONUT ISLAND N Peninsula QLD 27.0 ALVA BEACH Central Coast E QLD 27.0 RUNDLE ISLAND Wide Bay/Burnett QLD 26.6 HAMILTON ISLAND AIRPORT Central Coast E QLD 26.5 HORN ISLAND N Peninsula QLD |
| 5.1
MT HOTHAM Upper NE VIC 5.9 FALLS CREEK Upper NE VIC 6.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW 6.0 MOUNT BULLER Upper NE VIC 7.1 MOUNT READ W Coast TAS |
1.7
MT HOTHAM Upper NE VIC 2.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW 2.0 PERISHER VALLEY SKI CENTRE Snowy Mtns NSW 2.1 FALLS CREEK Upper NE VIC 2.4 CHARLOTTE PASS (KOSCIUSKO CHALET) Snowy Mtns NSW |
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Todays greatest temperature variations from normal |
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| Maximum | Minimum |
| +6.9
32.7 ALSTONVILLE TROPICAL FRUIT RESEARCH STAT North
Coast NSW +6.7 33.1 DOUBLE ISLAND POINT LIGHTHOUSE Brisbane/SE Coast QLD +6.0 34.2 MURWILLUMBAH (BRAY PARK) North Coast NSW +5.7 33.6 LISMORE (CENTRE STREET) North Coast NSW +4.9 33.2 ARCHERFIELD AIRPORT Brisbane/SE Coast QLD |
+7.0
24.3 LISMORE (CENTRE STREET) North Coast NSW +6.9 25.0 ARCHERFIELD AIRPORT Brisbane/SE Coast QLD +6.5 22.0 OAKEY AERO Darling Downs E QLD +6.1 17.5 GLEN INNES POST OFFICE N Tablelands W NSW +6.1 16.0 GUYRA HOSPITAL N Tablelands W NSW |
| -8.9
28.3 BALGO HILLS Interior WA -8.9 25.0 GILES METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE Interior WA -8.9 24.9 CURTIN SPRINGS Alice Springs NT -8.9 24.5 YUENDUMU Alice Springs NT -8.9 23.3 KULGERA Alice Springs NT |
-12.3
6.1 YEELIRRIE Goldfields WA -11.7 9.0 GILES METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE Interior WA -11.1 9.4 CARNEGIE Interior WA -10.9 9.0 WARBURTON AIRFIELD Interior WA -10.5 7.0 ALICE SPRINGS AIRPORT Alice Springs NT |
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Highest wind gusts above 89km/h or mean wind above 62km/h (gale force). Wind direction and mean windspeed shown in brackets. THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy
Mtns NSW: 93 (330/ 69 ) at 03:59 |
Other extremes .. |